OBIT: Samuel BINKLEY, 1890, Salunga, Lancaster County, PA

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LA GRIPPE.
More Deaths From the Epidemic.
SAMUEL BINKLEY.
The Well-Known Miller Dies at Salunga.

  A large portion of the people of Lancaster city and county are 
prostrated with the prevailing epidemic, and the numerous deaths which 
have been reported as caused by the influenza have sent hosts of the 
timid ones to physicians, who are called on at all hours of the day and 
night to attend patients - suffering frequently as much mentally as 
physically.
  Another death directly due to la grippe occurred on Monday at 
Salunga.  The victim was the well-known miller and farmer, Samuel 
Binkley.  For a week or more he had been suffering with a severe cold, 
from which on Saturday he appeared to have fully recovered.  Sunday, 
influenza of a virulent character seized him, the first symptoms being 
great pain in his bones and the calves of his legs.  The disease 
developed very rapidly, and on Monday afternoon resulted in his death.  
He was sixty-eight years old.  There survive him a wife and five sons - 
Henry, John, William, Samuel and Harman.
  Mr. Binkley for twelve years operated the Abbeyville grist and 
merchant mill on the Columbia turnpike, one mile west of Lancaster, and 
prior to that the Pike Valley mill in East Hempfield township.  For the 
past several years he has been residing at Salunga, where he followed 
the occupation of farming.  While operating the above mills he 
cultivated an extensive acquaintance, and was universally respected for 
his many fine qualities and business integrity.
  The funeral will be held on Thursday morning, at 10 o'clock, from the 
house near Garber's mill at Salunga, at two o'clock, P.M., at 
Mountville, where interment will be made in the cemetery of the 
Brethren, of which denomination the deceased was a life long and 
consistent member.

The Lancaster Daily Examiner, Tuesday, January 7, 1890

DIED.

  BINKLY.  January 6, 1890, at Salunga, near Garber's Mill, Samuel 
Binkly, in the 68th year of his age.
  The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to 
attend the funeral, from his residence, at 10 A.M., and at Mountville 
at 2 P.M., on Thursday.

The Lancaster Daily Examiner, Tuesday, January 7, 1890